One Hears— That there can be no standing still in commercial motoring.
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That:L.G.O.C. takings in a single week will touch £50,000 once at least this month.
That a smart Dennis van is undertaking Season and Coronation-time service for " The Motor."
That the tramcars on the " All-Red Route " in the Crystal Palace grounds all bear police licence-plates.
That a lot of Tilling's horses are busy te,nt pegging in the Pageant rehearsals at the Crystal Palace.
That some large petrol-driven tramcars are now nearing completion in London, and that some are for Russia.
That one of England's biggest battleship-building corporations now has a large financial interest in a motoreab company.
That a, Paris agent in a substantial way of business is open to take up the representation of one or two British manufacturers.
That a motorcar owner whose vehicle was pulled out of the ditch through the good offices of a mailvan driver rewarded the latter with 6d.
That the driver of a Metropolitan hackney carriage does not commit an offence by refusing to be hired when he is standing on a railway company's ground.
That the Joint Committee of the C.M.U.A. and the S.M.M.T. is about to push along with the drafting of its Bridges Bill, and that the said Bill will be influentially backed on introduction.
That the C.M.U.A. secretary has been so nearly up to the neck in parade work that he cannot be ready for the June meeting of the General Committee until the seeond Wednesday in the month.
That in a recent collision case in the Law Courts one of the parties exhibited several beautifully-finished scale models of the motor vehicles concerned, but that these were mentioned by their opponents only.
That the West End of London is now so hidden by Coronation stands that the bus companies are to request the authorities to have the reputed sites of public buildings plainly labelled for the guidance of passengers.
That at a recent boxing meeting which was intended to be solely for the benefit of taxicabbies, some of the principal events were monopolized by men whohardly knew the difference between a taximeter and a turnstile. Curses on the choice of Whit-Monday, but not from any of the drivers.
That the Metropolitan Steam Omnibus Co. is going along " quite nicely, thank you."
That the " K.P.L." has only been sent back to the potting-shed for a fortnight or so more.
That the " 215 orders" paragraph of last week has proved to suit the case of three British makers.
That the hardest worker on the C.M.U.A. parade committee has been Captain R. K. Bagnall:Wild.
That as the new airship has been called the "Mayfly," a good name for the new motorbus might be the "Juno."
That it will be time enough to gauge the value of the " Tubustram " scheme, say, about the second week in December.
That the old lady who habitually wears goggles when riding on top of a motorbus is not the old lady of Threadneedle Street.
That there is a growing probability of purchases by private individuals who will be bitten afresh by the amateur fire-brigade idea.
That Sir Gilbert Claxton East, Bart., has circulated a somewhat-forcible criticism of Col. Crompton's report on the Berkshire roads.
That Lancashire will yet be tapped by manufacturers of the smaller motorvans, but that the heavy brigade has had its own way so far.
That one of the evidences of the rapprochement between the L.G.O.C. and the tubes is the latter's new poster adjuring wayfarers not " to crawl through the streets."
That an unpremeditated printer's error in a footnote on page 248 of No. 324 fittingly gave Supt. Bassom the phonetic cognomen of " bar some "— which he certainly has done often.
That the exterior of the Dennis works has been given a smart coat of Coronation-time paint, and that the buildings consequently catch the eye of travellers by road and rail with even more effect than formerly.
That a Foden wagon which collects hog-wash from London hotels and restaurants bears a brass plate above its smoke-box telling all whose attention has been arrested by its approach that it is the "Queen of the Road."